In Telugu, they refer TAMILNADU as "ARAVA NADU" ARAVAM means Pambu / Snake / பாம்பு It doesn't mean Tamilnadu is best known for snakes, Snakes are found everywhere in India There was a ethnic race called "Nagargal" lived mostly in Tamilnadu & Srilanka Srilanka historical book Mahavamsam clearly states before vijayan landed in then srilanka, there were people living already in srilanka and named them as "Nagar" Nagargal which is Nagam or pambu or aravam and hence called Aravanadu we can see lot of tamil places still named Arava kuruchi, Naga pattinam, Naga land, Nagar koil, which probably means these ethnic people would have lived in large number in these places read the article in the given link - https://www.indiadivine.org This particular word is the main etmology source for many other words such as Nagar + Agam = Nagarigam/civilization/நாகரிகம் Nagar + Am (where they live) = Nagaram (நகரம்) Many examples of Nagas appear on the walls and alon...
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